We all know that exercise is good for us. We didn’t evolve to be couch potatoes. Back in the day, in the African savanna, those who sat got eaten. Sitting is a relatively new phenomenon of our industrialized world. In the 1900s, only those who were rich could sit. The...

The state held public hearings this week in Milwaukee and Green Bay on the proposed $9.1 billion acquisition of the energy company Integrys — the parent company of the Green Bay utility Wisconsin Public Service Corp. — by Milwaukee's We Energies.

Brendan Sasso, a technology correspondent for National Journal, says that the Federal Communications Commission's decision to uphold net neutrality is, to some extent, an answer to the question of who controls the Internet.

A documentary from the group Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf that makes the case against wolf hunting in Wisconsin has been released at a time when some members of Congress, like Rep. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin, are proposing taking a segment of the gray wolf population off of the Endangered...

In an extended edition of the Friday News Roundup, our assistant news director gets the story behind a handgun bill that received a hearing in the state Assembly this week. Then, we talk to a couple of WPR reporters covering Right to Work legislation and the latest on DNR funding.